CHAPTER 5

Clarke's POV

"My theory's right." Indra whispered.

"What?" I asked.

"She's Lexa's past life, Lexa's ancestor. Look at the year she's from, 2015. She's from the past. Look at her name, Alicia Lexa Clark. Fate has its funny way of bringing soul mates together. Don't you think?" Indra said.

"What are you saying?" I asked.

"I've read Titus's journals about the past Commanders and nightbloods. I wanted to be prepared when serving Lexa. What I found at first seemed crazy but now it's starting to make some sense. It said that nightbloods, as we know, have blood as dark as night flowing through their veins. They are not humans. They also have the power to transfer their spirits into different bodies. What we originally thought was that the transfer was made from commander to commander, but that was just the flame going from one commander to the next. There was nothing spiritual about the occurrence. We were looking at the transfer of spirit all wrong. The nightbloods need a body that is compatible to theirs in order to transfer their spirit into that one. We've never had the opportunity to ever meet another nightblood's ancestor before. This can be Lexa's chance to return to us through Alycia's body. All we need is for Lexa's spirit to have not moved on to the next realm. She must be near and willing to go through with the transfer. Knowing Lexa, she's probably following you everywhere you go. She's probably in this room right now." Indra said. There's a way for Lexa to return to me. I kept repeating that in my head. This sounds like crazy talk but I honestly don't care about how far-stretched this seems. There's a chance.

"Is there anything I can do to help her go through the transfer?" I asked.

"No you can't do anything. It's all up to Lexa now. We won't know how long the transfer will take. It's different for each nightblood. All you can do is make sure that Alicia stays near to us and doesn't get captured or killed before the transfer happens," Indra responded. Shit. I just acted like a total ass to her. Alicia probably has no intention of staying in Polis. I heard a knock on the door.

"Come in." I said. My mother walked in.

"Clarke. The Alicia girl looks exactly like Lexa. What's going on?" My mom said.

"It's nothing important for now. Only Trikru, Octavia, Bellamy, me, Raven, and you know how Lexa looked like. We need to keep it that way. Be normal. We don't want to start anything within Skaikru again. Tell the others that they are to call her Alicia and don't mess up. Is there anything else, mom?" I said.

"Yes, I came because I also needed you to come down to the ward with me. Alie made some of the people that participated extremely attached to the program. Now that everyone is detached, it's like some of them have become addicts for the fake happiness they once had. It's bad. Madison was a guidance counselor where she was. She's willing to help us. Madison and Alicia had to take care of Nick during his withdrawals from drug abuse, so Alicia has some experience too. They'll join us tomorrow at the ward." My mom said. I got a little nervous at the mention of Alicia. To be honest, I wasn't really sure how to react to her. I just nodded and told my mother I'd meet her at her ward in the morning.

Alicia's POV

(DAY 1)

Clarke. I have to admit she's pretty and hella sexy. But right now she's acting like a bitch. What was up with that flip in attitude. One minute it's like she wants to hug me and the next she's like bye bitch bye. She's really a mystery. I mean if they didn't want us in this place anyways, then why drag us all the way to their city? It makes absolutely no sense. We don't need to be here.

"Mom, let's go. We shouldn't be here anyways. Strands always saying we don't need any other extra weight anyways." I said.

"Maybe Alicia's right. They were kind of hostile towards us. They basically said give to us or get out." Christ said.

"We don't know what to expect here. This isn't 2015." My mom said.

"Usually I'd disagree with your mother, but this time I think she's right. This is uncharted territory. Let's follow the blond's rules." Strand said.

"Yeah and if we get into trouble with Clarke. We can always just offer Alicia up. I mean Alicia always has a way with our captives. What?! Don't tell me you guys didn't see the tension that was happening between Alicia and Clarke." Nick said as he jokingly winked at me. I heard my mom and Chris snicker.

"What? Nick, you're asking to be slapped." I said angrily.

"Alicia we should get some sleep now. We have to help Abby and Clarke tomorrow." My mom said.

"Ugh!" I said. Couldn't deal with my family. I just toned them out and went to sleep. I had an interesting dream.

I was in the dream. I don't know why but I was angry and sad at the same time. I looked down. I was wearing the same warrior attire as the men that captured my family and brought us to Clarke. I sat on a throne and was twirling a knife in one of my hands. I was in a tent. I think I was waiting for something or someone. Indra entered the tent with... Clarke? Why was I dreaming about her. Was my subconscious telling me something? I despise her, yet she's in my dream. This isn't good. I said, "So. You're the one!" I woke up before I could see anything else in my dream. I don't know why but that dream felt so damn real. I couldn't help but focus on Clarke's features. My eyes in the dream kept focusing on her curves, her breasts, and those eyes. I've never really focused on those things before for girls. I've always just been into guys. It wasn't the fact that I was totally against liking girls. It didn't really matter to be honest. I love for the sake of loving a person. Gender shouldn't matter in love. I just so happen to have only dated guys in my past because I fell for those people. Hmmm... So maybe I didn't really hate Clarke. Maybe my subconscious was alerting me to the fact that I, Alicia Lexa Clark, have a crush on the blond warrior girl, Clarke Griffin.